Wednesday, January 3, 2001

Friday, December 22, 2000

hahhahahah so how about it? :P my blog page is long as heck now ^^ that thing I just posted is the 1st episode of kaikan phrase summary. a very detailed one might I add. :P It took a really really long time to write and it sucks!!!! I believe anybody who read it would not want to watch the real thing T_T ahh my bad.. didn't mean to hurt the series in any way. it must be full of mistakes too cuz i didn't re-read it. oh well.. what the heck.. I give up on writing more episode summary anyway so who cares? :P

Friday, December 22, 2000

On a bridge, in the middle of the usually hectic tokyo traffic, stood a tall black-haired guy dressed also in black. He played with a little coin in his hand for a little while and suddenly tossed it. A little smirk appeared on his lips and he studied the outcome of the toss.

"..Someday, you'll pierce through the sun. "
Beautiful female high voice could be heard along with amplified music in one small studio in the heart of the city.

".....Wings black as the abyss..you look like an angel."

A tall, muscular and brown-haired guy looked up from his drums and smiled to the only girl in the practice room. She smiled back still holding her microphone. It's been countless times that they had practiced this song and this time, with much confidence, the song was perfectly played and the vocal was flawless as well. She glanced at the other members of 'Climb' and noticed a big smile on everybody's face. She moved her gaze back at Santa who was now chatting away with the long purple hair boy who was one of the guitarists of the band. She felt a pang of guilt all of a sudden.

At the crosswalk stood Santa and a purple-haired guy, Yukifumi, with his guitar waiting for the light signal. It was after practice.
"I'm looking forward to tomorrow live show. I think we can really do it." Yuki said with his calm nature.
"Yeah, but Yumi just doestn't seem to be into it."
"Aren't you being a bit harsh towards your own girlfriend?" softly said with a slight hint of laughter.
Santa just shrugged " no not really" he said as they walked across the street passing a mysterious guy in black. It was the guy who flipped the coin earlier.

1st GIG : Misty Blue

"one stage 50 thousands yen? Don't think so, the ones we've had, we've maybe paid half of that. I believe that's fair" A middle-aged man dressed in suit tried to negotiate the wage for a piano job in a rather luxurious and huge hotel louge in which he was in charge of.

The young man in black standing in front of him acted as if he didn't hear a single word that he has said. It was making him angry. There was something in this man that made him feel bad, almost small. It must have been his proud and don't-care attitude and this man was only a teenager too.

After he finished reading the music sheets in his hand, the young man said in a low voice. "In one week, you'll double your patrons. You won't lose any money"

The director of the lounge could not help from laughing. "You have some confidence. We'll first have to hear you though.." he said still smiling. Suddenly, the whole bunch of music sheets he had given to the young man eariler wildly flew in the air and slowly landed on the ground. 'What nerve!' he thought to himself and he looked at the back of the figure who slowly walked and with such grace to the open area.

"The music sheets!"... "We can't have you playing some random songs" He shouted to his back but to no avail. Half frustrated and half scared, the director yelled out to a young man wearing suit. "Nakanishi!"
A young guy popped out of nowhere and answered him attentively "Sir"
"Sorry but, could you get rid of him for me?"

The music started .The two guys of different ages watched speechless as the music was beautiful played.
"Director?"
The director answered without turning to his man "er..Never mind.."

'Impossible? Just by reading those sheets once?'

"Through the window where you sleep, the sky.." the soft and beautiful voice continued to flow endlessly. All the customers, enchanted by the music, stopped talking and turned to the piano, eyes locked to the only beautiful figure in black singing to his own music as if lost in his own world.

"Melts the thin moon into the dawn. without reason time flows away. i'll make only you into a woman..."

"can you start tomorrow?" The director wasted no time and asked him as soon as the performance was finished
"yeah" he said with a calm face.
"where did you play before this?"
"i've never played for money before"
"then why here" The director looked a little interested.
"I decided on a coin toss. the hotel on the right or the hotel on the left" he replied and then left the old man stunned.

He smiled as he took a shower comtemplating the event last night. He got a job, the one he decided with a coin toss.

"You found a job?" exclaimed the owner of a little cafe place located in the basement of some building. There was no reply from the man sat at the counter face to face with him so he went on."..well , you'll probably quit that one too anyway."
"I'm playing piano at the hotel" The guy in black who was also his regular customer finally answered
"piano?" he said still drying the dishes from behind the counter.
"I'm starting tonight"
"That's good I like Badua Winton a lot. I've listen to the album so much that the tape is wearing out
and then there's reika, she's a renowned Jazz vocalist, heard of her?"
"no" short answer as usual..
He placed a cup of coffee in front of his younger customer.
"on the house for your new job"
"Thanks"

At a live house. Two of the members of Climb propped out their heads to look at the place they were going to play at
"man this place is dead"
"yeah" frowned both.

2 seconds later, Santa, Yuki and Yumi appeared behind the two.
Santa looked at the almost empty place and smiled confidently "Don't worry. let's rock this house down. Just think of them as new fans who'll bring more new ones. They'll say 'Climb is amazing!'"
Yuki smiled a little "Yeah, eventually this place will become standing room only.."
"ok everyone ready? Let's go!" Santa looked at all the members and then they barged out with strength!

The music from the grand piano hypnotized everyone in the chamber. Every pair of eyes stared at the pianist including this pair of eyes by a middle-aged woman named Missa. She watched him quietly and kept smiling to herself unaware of things around her.
"Missa-san shall we go soon?" A man who sat next to her tried desperately to gain her attention but to no avail."Missa-san?"
Missa lifted her wine glass for the pianist in black as she met eyes with him, a seductive smile always on her lips.

After he has done with his work, he slowly walked on his way to get his motorbike but was interrupted by missa who was waiting for him in a red sport car. She turned on the car's spotlight and it blinded him for a second.
"That was very well done maybe i should come again tomorrow. Shall i give you a ride home?"
He didn't answer her but instead asked her another question. "You had some one with you. Where is he?"
" He went home already"
"You blew him off, didn't you?"
" maybe..." She paused a little. "I want to talk, please get in"
He didn't seem like he cared and just walked to his bike.
"I'll follow you" Stubbornly said Missa.
"Do whatever you want if you can follow me" and he sped off.

Even though it was alread late at night, the traffic was still heavy. However, Missa managed to keep up with him. As he was sipping beer resting on the bridge, she showed up with a smirk on her face halting the car abruptly besided him.
"I followed you.at least tell me your name"
"Sakuya" as he handed her the same beer can that he sipped a little while ago
"Sakuya ..looks like i won't be bored for a while" she smiled seductively as she put the can up to her lips.
"Same here" as he slowly looked up to the night sky.


Santa walked into the studio building his group always rented looking around.
"Looks like i'm a bit early" He stopped in front of the door with a huge sticker sign on in written "studio 4". He smiled at the thought of being the first there. It was a pretty rare occasion.He roughly looked inside the dark room and shifted his gaze to the doorknob, but something made him look through the glass door for a second time. In spite of the darkness, he could still spot two figures .. making out. His band's bassist and the vocalist, yumi. He barged in immediately.
Quietly, he said "since when?"
The guy stepped up to him "Santa ..this is.."
punch in the face!
"Yusuke!" Yumi cried out as she ran to the guy who was now kissing the floor.
"since when?!" asked Santa, this time with a little louder voice.
Another two band members showed up at the door, still oblivious to the situation. "Hey! you're so early santa"
There was no answer from Santa and it only took them a second to understand what had happened. Santa slowly turned to them
"Did you know?"

Yumi was quick to defend her bandmates "No one is to blame. The blame falls on me... but it falls on you too!"
"What?" he couldn't believe what he just heard.
"To you the band is more important than me. You never cared about how i felt." she said avoiding his stare.

He had had it.
"I quit" he said and then started to walk off, totally ignoring two friends of his who were calling out his name.
"Yeah.. he can't stay. Not after knowing his girlfriend was going at it with one of the band members." One of the guys said. They signed knowing there was no way to hold their drummer back.

Yukifumi just arrived and he met Santa at the corner. "Hey" he shout out, but santa just walked away oblivious to anything else.

Later, they were at the staircases in the studio builing. Santa was sitting on the steps whereas yuki standing looking at nothing in particular.
"Wasn't Climb your last gamble?"
Santa signed heavily " Yeah.. but Climb was as important to me as she was. I couldn't separate it between her and the band."
"If you're quitting, I am too"
"Yuki?"
"Your drum rhythm has pretty much saturated my body so..."

Sakuya stood alone in his own apartment looking out the window with sad eyes. He spotted a car that pulled up at the footpath. Missa was saying good bye to the man who just dropped her off. She, then, turned to smile at him. They had planned to have a dinner at a restaurant together.
"Aren't u going to get mad?"
"Why?"
"I was late coming here because of another man"
"No, not really."
"Oh really? Or are you scared to get serious?"
"I won't get serious." Missa was frozen for a second and looked up.
Sakuya continued talking "The one who's getting serious is you"
Missa started to form a smile and rested her chin on the back of her hands as she stared at him "so those blue eyes don't miss a thing." Sakuya just poured the wine down his throat.

At a guitar shop, santa was reading a magazine when the customer was trying to get his attention.
"Excuse me .... Excuse me.."
Yukifumi turned and noticed the customer "Santa! a customer"
The brown-haired guy suddenly looked up from the thing he had been reading and eagerly served the person who has been waiting even though there was no line. "Oh! sorry .. 2800 yen please. Thank you for your business" he said loudly as he bowed to the customer who was walking out to the street.
"Yeah sorry. I was reading this." He lifted the magazine up and showed it to his beautiful long-haired friend. "I want to find new band members as fast as possible. I'm not sure how many people can keep up with us though. Maybe we should go down to the live or ask some of our friends."
Yukifumi said softly "Santa. Maybe we should wait a whilte."
"No! If I don't start something soon, I feel like I'm going to go crazy!"
He stepped to Yukifumi "Let's make a new and even more amazing one than Climb! Come on!"

Days after days, they went seeing many lives and talked to people.

One faithful night, at the hotel, sakuya came to play the piano as usual. After finishing it he walked past the hotel director
"Hey you've become really popular. And the Hotel Management is happy that we have more female patrons"
He said "Thanks" to the director and left the scene.

Yukifumi appeared behind a girl who dressed in a purple one piece and was watching sakuya with much appreciation.
"Hey long time no see" she cried out immediately after seeing who had come to meet her.
"Sorry to call you on short notice" He roughly brushed his purple hair away from his face and sat down on a comfy chair next to hers.
"That's ok. so what do you want?"
"You're still playing with those college bands, aren't you?"
"uh huh"
"Anyone around there that screams out 'this is the one?'"
"What about 'Climb'?"
"I quit" He said curtly, not wanting to go into the details.
"Hmm? I figured you'd do it sooner or later. With those vocals, your guitar doesn't sing as well."
"That's not the reason. Anyone around?"
"No not really, more for the fact that they probably wouldn't be able to follow your lead."

She fell silent for a moment and then she thought of something as her eyes fell on the grand piano.
"Well, that pianist"
"Pianist?"
This time with much energetic voice "Yes, the pianist had a really good voice, and seemed really professional."
"You really think someone who'd play here would join a band?"
"Well, you'll just have to ask him, won't you?"
They both turned to the piano
"If you and that vocalist joined together. It would be amazing."
He didn't say anything and just stared at the piano.

Later, at a live house, Yukifumi and Santa came hunting for band members again
"So that's Neon's Bassist? Towa? .. The other members have a lesser technique, style" Santa paused a little and after listening to the music more, he said with confidence. "But that one is different"
" Ah, great..." Yukifumi said with appreciative voice "His sound is holding up the band"
"Yeah, that's defenitely the sound we want,right?"
Yukifumi just nodded silently.


After the show, both of them decided to go and try their luck. They were walking down the steps to the basement when they heard sounds of people talking.
"OK, we'll call again"
"Thank you very much"

A guy in a business suit walked up past them. They started to know what would be in store for them. This was not going to be easy.

"Fulmarks records seems to really be thinking about picking us up." A voice could be heard from inside.
"Feels like it doesn't it?"
"Indies Debut? Let's do it!!"
"We'll need to come up with something much flashier."

The guy with long blond hair who they were scouting earlier, Towa, said softly with his feminine voice while slowly rubbing his bass guitar at the same time. "Props and flash won't help us for long."
Other members simultaneously turned to him.
"We'll need to polish and improve our technique." continued Towa.

One of the guys slightly annoyed "Yeah, we know"
"Give it some time. we'll get better." another quickly chimed in.
"Yeah yeah! The other day at a shop in Ropongi there was this really cool jacket...."

While uninterestingly listening to what his bandmate was saying, towa spotted Santa and Yukifumi at the door.
Santa took the lead "Could we talk to you for a sec?"
"Yeah we are.."
But Yukifumi didn't get to finish his sentence when Towa interrupted him with "Yeah I know you. Climb right? What do you want?"
"Umm.. could we get some privacy?" asked Santa.

Towa gently placed his bass in the case and closed it. He then looked at the two with questions in his eyes

@Juke Box restaurant
Santa started the recruit "If we play together, I'm positive we'll make an amazing band."
"You have a powerful sound, even though you were toning it down for the sake of the other members. And you have good technique."
"We want your sound. So what do you say?" Santa asked with a smile on his face.
Towa still stiring his tea "Who's the vocals?"
"Well.. we're working on that." Santa stuttered.
Towa looked at yuki "And I take it you're the guitarist"
"Yeah, but I want another."
"I don't care to join a piece mail band." Towa said softly and slowly with the feminine voice of his.
"We'll find the other members!" Santa almost yelled at him.
"It's not that easy"
Yukifumi signed realizing it was the truth. "Ok then. If we get everything ready, will you think about it then?"
"Yeah, sure"
Santa continued to babble "Don't give us up for loss already.We challenge with our sound, not our image or props. We're not like the other bands, those are shitty bands."
Towa stopped sipping his tea and spoke softly like usual "And I'm being graced by which God?"
"What?"
Yukifumi tried to knock some sense into Santa. "You're being rude. You should take that back."
"I'm telling the truth from how I see it." said Santa stubbornly.
"You're in no position to judge me. Those guys and I have a long past."
"But, no matter how much you hold yourself down, they still can't keep up. Do you really believe in them??"
By this time, Yukifumi couldn't take it anymore and grabbed santa shirts by the collars "Quit it!"
Santa couldn't care less and continued spitting out his theory. "I can't play with guys that I can't believe in." looking at towa "I won't have another band like that!"
"So that's why you left Climb." said Towa ever so calmly.
Santa was speechless and dared not to look back. Yuki let go of him. Towa started to walk away with his instrument.
Yukifumi gave him last words "Towa, please think about it." but Towa kept walking away without saying anything.

The two guys moved to comtemplate what had happened on a bridge.
"Hey..am i wrong? Should I forget everything and go back to Climb?"
Winds blew past their faces.
"You could be wrong but... you can't play with members you don't believe in." He turned to Santa "That at least is right." Santa looked back at him and smiled.
Yukifumi turned back and looked straight ahead "I've come up with a band name. 'Lucifer' the Fallen Angel."
"Yeah that fits us well."
"Lucifer's bassist should be Towa."
"But.."
"He'll come"
Santa smile and turn to face the traffic and the night once more "All we need then is a guitarist and vocals"
Yukifumi pondered about it for a little bit and then said "If we look for a guitarist, we'll find one that matches us but finding a vocals will be a problem."
"Our first problem"
There was a motorcycle running right below them.
"Yeah, but there's one out there, definitely."
and it was sakuya on the bike.

Friday, December 22, 2000

kuwami requested me to do this so hear ya go "SOMETHING" ehh..lame ne? don't worry. i plan to actually write something more substantial hehhe ^^

Saturday, December 2, 2000

hello~ this is supposed to be my hyukie-infatuation page~ everyone~ meet my lovely hyukie~~ hehehhe :)~~~

Saturday, December 2, 2000

ok xerces don't laugh when you see this >_<